Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-02-10

Seems to me I've heard some quota
ton like that. emily briefer. Heigho
Yesterday was red-lettsr dey in my
existence. To be sole guide, assistance,
counselor and protector of the dearest
girl in the world for q whole day OF
rambling through forest and glen, is
what call blessed privileged We
explored Ben Voirlich-all the noun
tains in this country seem to be af-
ficted with Christian name OF Benia,
min-spoke our little piece over Mo-
mans Rill, and ate our luncheon in
Lone Glenarty's hazel shade" ]
think / must have spouted q whole
canto OF "The Lady OF the Lake" at
different times, and how spirited she
was over the defiant stag-how her
beautiful eyes fill up at the death of my
gallant gray"
Well, it's blessing know Scott by
heartl 1t is precious little else I know
! besides poetry and novels, but she de-
fers to me as if were an emporium of
Information. Said she:
"Mr. 0lden, you seem to feel poetry,
while other people, just say it. You
give il ring of reality that is more af-
fecting than finished defamation.
lit must be because you are my
auditor then. Generally regard poet
nv as a combination of Enthusiastically ele-
waited words and ideas-a hyperbolical
expression of ultra-human sentiments in
ultra-human language. With you for
listener, it seems almost appropriate,
so high rank do / give you"
She (archly)-"I wonder if / have
anything to do with the feelings which
prompt you to wind up an impassioned
poem with some absurd parody or bur-
lesque."
1-"Oh, that is done for the purpose
of taking the edge off what you might
otherwise consider sentimentality--a and
partly to convince myself that / am not
growing sentimental in reality"
Shells sentiment such crime in
your eyes?"
I"Not crime, but source for ridi-
cule. Promise me not to laugh-not TO
think me absurd and I'll play at ro-
nance like the veriest lover of them all.
i have mighty leaning toitp"
She-"Some day you'll play at it in
earnest, and be the 'yeriest lover OF
them all. or / am no phrophetess.
I-"Methinks the day has come--the
hour and the woman! Can you not see
that since / have known you-since
that happy day in Venice"
She (naively)-"When you returned
my book ?"
I-"Ahl You did get the book |?
Then it has told you that from the first
have set up your picture in my heart,
and fallen down before it"
She--"'All on Summers day.
Are You not getting dangerously near
the brink, Mr. Olden--of the lake, L
mean? You might wet your feet"
I-"Do YOU think say this IN vein
which justifies fippant interruptions,
Miss Gray?"
She-"Do you think i treat You in a
way which iustifies fippant gallantry,
Mr.. Olden?"
You wrong me when you treat as
gallantry the homage of a man"
She-"Is quite as serious as he usu-
ally permits himself to be, or as he has
been during any summer vacation for
the past half a dozen years. Who
parodies Rosalind and says. Come, Ill
woe thee. for I'm in holiday humor,
and like enough TO be ensnared' 2"
I-"You regard me as trifer, j see. Z"
She (regretfully)-"Ard only think
what you might have been Let US go
home"
Now, what does all this mean !?
Am / IN love? And is there
q chance for me? As to the first, yes
aud the second-Well, she scorned
the manner and not the matter of my
wooing. There's some comfort IN that.
If you can convince a woman that you
were triher until you succumbed to
her, she is prepared to forgive the
Grst, and to regard the last as very
natural.
only to think what you might havo
BEEN" She said il almost mournful-
ly. Now, / don't think / might have
been anything in particular; but shall
try to be it from this time forth, and
she shall be the Judge. How beautiful
she is I'd give a kings ransom to
hear her say
There's the breakfast bell